GOSHEN -- Three men were sentenced to double-digit prison time Monday in the October 2010 robbery that ended in the death of Heriberto "Eddie" Ayala.

Charles Dolson, 22; Ollie Dolson, 35; and Abiecer Calderon, 35 appeared in Orange County Court for sentencing in the case. Calderon and Charles Dolson had pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in exchange for 20-year prison sentences, and Ollie Dolson pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery in exchange for a 16-year sentence.

Ayala, 29, was repeatedly stabbed as the three men staged a violent knife-point robbery at the one-room apartment Ayala shared with his wife, Toni Ayala, and her then-15-year-old sister Rebecca Weeks.

Assistant District Attorney Karen Edelman-Reyes laid out the senseless brutality of the crime. She told Judge Robert Freehill that Ollie Dolson knew Ayala, and recruited Charles Dolson and Calderon for the robbery; another man, Jose M. Soto, acted as the getaway driver. Ollie Dolson, Edelman-Reyes said, went into the Ayala apartment at Gino's Motel in Middletown. Charles Dolson and Caldero, armed with knives, followed him inside and attacked.

Edelman-Reyes said the assailants fell upon Ayala, stabbing him repeatedly; Calderon punched Toni Ayala and slashed at her with the knife, cutting her hand. He ripped a gold chain off her neck and the wedding ring from her finger. As Weeks tried to call 911, Charles Dolson threw her across the room and tore the phone and two rings from her hand.

"It was eight minutes," the prosecutor told the judge. "Eight minutes to walk a short distance, to take away everything that Toni Ayala had, to take away Rebecca Weeks' innocence."

"My family has been robbed of the most beautiful human being we have ever known," Eddie Ayala's cousin, Wanda Vazquez, told the court. Eddie, she said, was like her little brother; and he would have given anything to anyone to help someone. "Eddie Ayala was a good human being. He was my brother and my friend, and you have no idea what you've done."

Edelman-Reyes said Ayala was a good family man in bad circumstances; he and his wife and her sister had come on hard times, and were living at Gino's because Emergency Housing couldn't take them in with Weeks and they didn't want to break up the family.

"Eddie was taking care of his family," Edelman-Reyes said.

Soto and a fifth defendant who helped dispose of evidence and who sheltered the others, Maxwell Siebold, were to be sentenced Monday afternoon.